1. ENGL 099
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2. Agenda Freewrite Growth Mindset Discussion Read Sheridan Blau
Compare Blau and Dweck
Read Sherman Alexie
Group Activity
Pre-Reading “Why Study Food?”
Homework

3. Freewrite
What is your greatest fear when it comes to writing?

4. How to Cultivate Growth Mindset?

5. Superman and Me Discussion
What is the argument of this essay? In other words, what is Sherman trying to show readers?
For what purpose did Sherman love reading?
What is a paragraph? How does Sherman use the paragraph as metaphor?
What is the effect of Alexie’s analogy of a paragraph to a fence? How does he expand on this idea “enclosure and release” when he references “doors” in both the fourth and the eighth paragraphs?
In paragraph 7, Alexie deliberately uses a number of short, simple sentences. What effects he trying to achieve?
What does learning mean to Sherman?
Does this essay speak to you? If so how?

6. Group Activity
Pull one quotation from Sherman Alexie Reading and illustrate how it represents growth mindset and/or Blau’s Traits.

7. Pre-Reading Belasco
“People use food to speak with each other, to establish rules of behavior, and to reveal, what you are.”
What does this quotation mean to you?
Our first Out-of-Class Essay centers around the idea that food shapes our identity. What does this quotation say about identity formation?

8. Homework
4Ts - “Why Study Food?” By Warren Belasco